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‘Sure enough, the tremor of his voice instilled fear but something within felt familiar with his malevolent aura.’

‘There was a tremor in her voice that made him think she hovered on the brink of tears.’

‘He mentally chided himself for the tremor in his voice.’

‘I listen out for unnatural noises, analyse the stewardess's voice for any tremors of concern and, in the unfortunate event that I find myself sitting over the wing, scan the metal parts for signs of wear and tear.’

‘I could detect a sort of hesitant tremor in the voice.’

‘His voice had a tremor in it too, words passing out over palsied lips.’

‘Tanya asked, and for the first time, there was a tremor in her voice.’

‘There was a tremor in her voice, as if her uncertainty had turned into a bit of fear.’

‘He knew she had tried to hide the tremor in her voice, but he heard it.’

‘I can feel a tremor in my voice, the fifth or sixth time that I call her name.’

‘He pauses, and then adds, in a casual tone of voice that betrays only a hint of a tremor: ‘Or I could end up killing myself.’’

‘You'd think they were in mortal danger (again, not actual mortal danger) by the nervous tremor in their voices.’

‘‘Come back alive,’ she uttered, even her whispers betraying the tremor in her voice.’

‘The tremor in his voice reflected a man looking over the edge of a very deep abyss.’

‘‘Please… please live,’ she said through the violent tremors of her voice.’

‘Still, when I spoke, it was with a tremor in my voice.’

‘I asked politely but I could here the tremor in my voice.’

‘He paused a little, gathering up his courage, removing the tremor from his voice.’

‘When she released him from that, he began his lines a little unsteadily, a faint tremor in his voice.’

‘A slight tremor shook the earth, and the Colonel awoke in the guest room.’

‘On Boxing Day at 6am the 150 guests were violently shaken from their sleep by an earth tremor - three hours later the Gibbons sisters would have to save themselves from drowning.’

‘It was later discovered, though, that a rare series of small tremors, called foreshocks, occurred before the large quake hit the city.’

‘I remember because there was some kind of earth tremor one night and I fell out of bed.’

‘The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor had a magnitude of 4.8, and that its epicenter was six miles northwest of Tbilisi.’

‘The bureau also said that the tremor was an aftershock of last year's 921 earthquake.’

‘It also comes within a month of the biggest earth tremor to hit Britain for 10 years.’

‘The Central Weather Bureau said Wednesday's quake was an aftershock from a deadly tremor in March.’

‘The earth tremor is over in seconds and life resumes its peaceful rhythm.’

‘Anyone who believed in omens would have been wondering what to make of the earth tremor which shook York the day before New Year's Eve, 1944.’

‘She recalled an investigation from a couple of years back, when they discovered themselves at the epicentre of an earth tremor, the largest the country had seen for years.’

‘When the major explosion occurred, the seismological unit of Tehran University recorded an earth tremor measuring 3,6 on the Richter scale in the same area - possibly a reading sparked by the force of the blast.’

‘Officials have admitted that it would only take an earth tremor - not a rare occurrence in this part of the world - and another 30 buildings, including several national monuments, could collapse.’

‘We had an earth tremor last night at about one thirty or something.’

‘So far we have established that it is hot, muggy, and the place is prone to the odd earth tremor.’

‘Before he was able to finish he felt the ground shook to a minor earth tremor, then another.’

‘Johannesburg felt the after-effects of an earth tremor, with a preliminary reading of five on the Richter Scale, which struck near Klerksdorp just before 1pm, on 9 March 2005.’

‘Terrified people fled their homes unaware that it was an earth tremor.’

‘This morning at about 3AM, a sweet rain fell and at about 6AM, I felt a rumbling in the bed for a second or two… an earth tremor.’

‘At first, I thought that Ealing was possibly experiencing a minor earth tremor.’